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As Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek begins production on its sixth and final season, father-son creative team Eugene and Daniel Levy reflected on the importance of solid character development in their hit comedy.
“That’s the great thing about a good character comedy, which is what we set out to make in the beginning,” Eugene…

In the pantheon of male and female comedy duos, one can feasibly rank SCTV alums Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara up there with such greats as George and Gracie Burns and Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder. Broadcasting out of the Great White North, the two established a reputation for respectively playing nerdy and brassy…

Schitt’s Creek creator/stars Eugene and Daniel Levy joined co-stars Catherine O’Hara and Annie Murphy at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event today to discuss the Pop TV series’ evolution over four seasons.
Starting out, the elder Levy commented on the way in which the show has functioned like “the little engine that…

Pop TV has renewed Schitt’s Creek, its flagship original comedy series created by and starring Eugene Levy and Daniel Levy, for a fifth season. The network has ordered 14 episodes, up from the usual 13, for a winter 2019 return.
The news comes during the run of Season 4, which Pop says is up double digits in viewers…

While hit comedy Schitt’s Creek is moving into its fourth season, it first began with an idea inspired by the Kardashians and the Real Housewives, co-creator Daniel Levy said at TCA on Sunday.
The show follows the Rose family after they abruptly lose their fortune and are forced to live in the small town they…

The new year will bring a new season of Schitt’s Creek on Pop. The cable net owned by CBS Corp and Lionsgate said today that the continuing comedic adventures of the Rose family will start at 8 PM January 11. The Canadian scripted comedy stars SCTV alums Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara along with Daniel Levy and…

EXCLUSIVE: In a rare instance of working together since 1978’s The Deer Hunter, good friends Christopher Walken and Robert De Niro will go before the cameras next month to take part in a different kind of war: The War With Grandpa, a comedy directed by Tim Hill (Hop). Comedy favorite Eugene Levy— who co-starred in…

Daniel Levy, co-creator, executive producer/showrunner and co-star of the comedy series Schitt’s Creek, has signed with CAA.
Levy created the Canadian comedy Schitt’s Creek with his father, Eugene Levy. The two co-star opposite Catherine O'Hara on the show, which airs on the U.S. cable network Pop as well as…

CBC has renewed half-hour comedy Schitt’s Creek for a third season for premiere in winter 2017.
It’s too early for Pop, which airs the series in the U.S., to make a renewal decision as Season 2 has yet to premiere (it debuts next month), but Pop brass have said they love the show.
Schitt’s Creek centers around a…

Pop has picked up a second season of half-hour comedy series Schitt’s Creek starring Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara, for premiere in 2016. The network said today it ordered 13 new episodes of its first scripted series, which was renewed in Canada in January.
Created by father-son team Eugene and Daniel Levy, Schitt’s…

Growing up, Schitt’s Creek co-creator and star Dan Levy sought to do his own thing, never intentionally leaning on comedic legend father Eugene Levy. “I grew up watching SCTV and when I was in high school, the Christopher Guest movies were the coolest thing. But I started up in Canada at MTV where I wanted to build my…